UK Minister for Africa and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia co-hosted UK-Ghana Business Council Lite to discuss economic development, job creation, trade and investment
UK and Ghana commit to deepening their partnership to support Ghana’s economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19
Meeting builds on the recent success of...
On Nigeria’s bustling streets, stalls selling stacks of well-worn, energy-sucking refrigerators and air conditioners are known as “tokunbo”, a Yoruba word that means “from abroad”.
Millions of people flock to such markets across Africa each year to buy the imported appliances at bargain prices, particularly as their incomes rise, along...
The outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic has compelled the Government of Ghana to use legal means to impose restrictions and other measures to curb the spread of the virus.
The government’s first legal means to control the spread of the pandemic was the enactment of The Imposition of Restrictions...
A few years ago, President John A. Kufour said of Ghanaian employees “they pretend to work and we pretend to pay them”. This statement by the leader of the nation clearly reflected his exasperation as his administration failed to find a solution to the abysmally low productivity of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic, now nearly four months old in Africa, has ushered in an unprecedented interconnected health, social and economic crisis across Africa as it has in most of the world. It has struck every country with varied impacts on different aspects of life.
By mid-June more than 260,000 cases...
Yesterday, the Business and Financial Times (B&FT) held a webinar under the theme: ‘Managing an anxious work force during and post COVID-19’ with human resource experts and the overwhelming verdict was that open and honest communication is crucial.
Director of Human Resource, Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong observed that the...
Ghana’s fight against the novel coronavirus has received a welcome boost of support from the Global Quality Standards Programme (GQSP) for the development of standards for personal protective equipment (PPEs), sanitizers and related items.
The UNIDO-GQSP collaboration has developed a national standard for alcohol-based hand sanitizer and a publicly available...
Being born into a royal family and the son of chief, one would have thought that it would be a life of privilege and luxury. But for Alhassan Andani, Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Ghana, the experience thought him valuable lessons that have influenced his career and his general...
In so many ways, Ghanaians have played politics with the economy of Ghana - especially the politicians. This is terrible for growth of the economy. A country’s politics can seriously affect its economy, which impacts the living conditions of its people. Most countries have had their economies destroyed as...
The world is evolving with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI). Lawyers, teachers, administrators stand the risk of being booted out as it might not be efficient to use humans to carry out the function that programmes, app, robots can comfortably, effectively and efficiently do in time and cost-saving...